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After 7 hours, Dune: Awakening might be the mix of survival and RPG that finally wins me over to the genre

The spicy takes must flow.

PC Gamer

Gulp! Dune: Awakening beta testers are dying of thirst nearly as often as they're dying of sandworms, and some are even drinking mouse blood to stay alive

"Close to a hundred [kangaroo mice] had their blood extracted," says Funcom. "How could you?"

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Every game, trailer, and announcement in the 2024 PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted

This year's showcase featured over 80 games to look forward to in the new year.

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"I am aghast": Google Search AI said a former Conan Exiles dev's personal phone was Funcom's office number, leading to irate complaint call

Due to an erroneous Google AI search result, a game developer was contacted at their personal phone number by an angry customer trying to complain to the main office of a studio they haven't worked at for eight years.

Windows Central

'Dune: Awakening' Developers Are Already Working On Fan's Biggest Criticism

"There is a lot that was not shown," the game's creative director said.

Inverse

Dune Awakening developer says work on bringing the MMO to Xbox Series S is progressing but will be a "challenge"

Funcom has said that bringing Dune Awakening to Xbox Series S will be a "challenge".

TechRadar

'Dune: Awakening' May Have Overlooked A Core Part of Dune

Fans of the source material say this popular game genre feels out of place in Frank Herbert's universe.

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Stick to the shade in new extended 'Dune: Awakening' gameplay trailer (video)

A new gameplay trailer for Funcom's open-world survival video game, "Dune: Awakening"

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New Dune: Awakening Showcase Video Reveals Potential of Upcoming Survival MMO

A new showcase video for Dune: Awakening reveals the potential of the upcoming survival MMO made by developer Funcom.

Player One

'Dune: Awakening' Gets a Frustrating Release Date Update

The sleeper will awaken...soon. But what is the actual release date for 'Dune: Awakening'? And what can players actually expect from the gameplay

Inverse

'Dune: Awakening' Recreates The Best Part Of The Books

Frank Herbert’s Dune saga is transported into the game Dune: Awakening from developer Funcom. The upcoming action MMO will let players replicate the human and factional drama at the center of these seminal books, creating endless possibilities for new stories on Arrakis.

Inverse

Dune Awakening's new gameplay trailer explores the planet of Arrakis

Dune Awakening just received a brand-new gameplay trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024.

TechRadar

Aloft is a stunning skybound survival game that's soaring towards Early Access

Turn a floating aerial island into your very own skyship, and get your friends involved too.

PC Gamer

A single Dune: Awakening map will be almost ten times the size of Conan Exiles, where you can "meet hundreds of players"

In an interview published on their YouTube page, Funcom announced some rather big news that was previously unknown. The game will feature a PvP zone almost ten times the size of Conan Exiles.

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In Dune: Awakening you 'physically fly' your ornithopter between servers on an overland map filled with 'hundreds of other players'

Funcom explains the nuts and bolts of how its MMO works.

PC Gamer

Dune: Awakening is threatening to turn me into a survival MMO guy after a lifetime as a devoted videogame hermit

The spice must flow.

Inverse

'Dune: Awakening' Is the Massively Ambitious Game the Sci-Fi Saga Needs

Dune: Awakening is a massively ambitious survival MMO that wants to painstakingly recreate the dangers of Arrakis, and it might just pull it off.

GamesRadar

Dune Awakening is a truly massive survival MMO, and it manages to make sandworms the terror they should be

Summer Preview | Dune Awakening still has a lot to prove, but I was blown away by its massive scope at Summer Game Fest

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The twist for Dune: Awakening's narrative has been revealed. M. Night Shyamalan would be proud.

The narrative for Dune: Awakening has been revealed. It makes total sense if Funcom is to deliver a game with narrative freedom.

PC Gamer

Paul Atreides was never born in the alternate timeline of survival MMO Dune: Awakening

Instead, Lady Jessica obeyed the Bene Gesserit and gave birth to a girl, which makes for quite a different future on Arrakis.

Windows Central

From new Xbox games to AR glasses, here are my favorite things I saw at my very first GDC

At GDC 2024 in San Francisco, I saw a lot of awesome things from upcoming Xbox games, new Razer products, and even epic AR glasses.

Windows Central

I previewed an upcoming Xbox survival-MMO, and it may actually make me a fan of the genre AND the Dune franchise

Dune: Awakening is an upcoming survival-MMORPG set in the Dune franchise, and my early preview actually made me excited about the full game.

PC Gamer

Survival MMO Dune: Awakening wants to 'pull people away from competing and fighting over bases' and have them battle over spice instead

Funcom says PvP works best when players are "fighting over something that's not as personal as your base."

PC Gamer

Why Funcom didn't give Dune: Awakening an 'endowment slider' like Conan Exiles

Conan's world is "savage" and "sexy" says Dune: Awakening's executive producer. Dune's world? Not so much.

PC Gamer

Dune: Awakening's survival systems might do the impossible: make smashing boulders and collecting water fun

Harvesting rocks and stockpiling water are usually mindless chores, but in Funcom's survival MMO they look kinda enjoyable.

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